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Scorpions: A Savage Crazy World

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why did they mix Matthias Jabs' guitar so low in the mix on the live show! I have to strain to hear him soloing! The next logical step is to release World Wide Live on DVD in 5.1 surround with tons of extras. Wouldn't you agree?

I bought a copy of this and tried to play it on the old videos such as "No One Like You" and "I'm Leaving You", but they kept pausing on my DVD player. So I bought another copy, thinking this was just a faulty DVD. The second one did the exact same thing! So then I spent money having my DVD player cleaned and "fixed", only to find that the DVD still wouldn't play right! I give up! What is the use of having a DVD if it's not going to play right?

This is not the greatest DVD release, but being a big scorpions fan, I'm still glad I got it and have watched it several times. The greatest scorpions DVD by far (I have them all) is Acoustica, the Scorpions version of unplugged in Dolby Digital 5.1, with an un-believable cover of dust in the wind by Kansas, plus 20 other songs. Acoustica was never released in North America for some un-known crazy reason. My copy came from Germany.

The 2 hidden videos-To get to "Big City Nights", from main menu select special features, then with dolby digital 2.0 highlighted, press the left arrow button twice. When the Scorpions logo appears, hit enter to play video. To get to "No One Like You", from main menu select Live, then next to highlight track 7, then hit the left arrow twice. When the Scorpions logo appears, hit enter to play video.

Scorpions are always good in live, so this dvd is original scorpions dvd.The penalty is about the recording tech of sound.
It must be released again in dolby digital sound or DTS.If someone want to see only the live without care about tech...
...then my personal recommended is 5 star at least.

Just as I hoped it would be -- live shots as well as artistically created videos. My ONLY disappointment was that the song "Holiday" is only the short version. The second part of the song is fantastic and I was hoping it would be included. DVD shows a wide variety of songs from many different albums and you can choose each song individually, or you can select "play all". Klaus' voice is right-on throughout the entire series and each musician's talents are featured in detail. As a total "Rudolf devotee", it's fantastic because you can hear every lick perfectly. A definite MUST for Scorpions fans!

The Scorpions are (were?) a good rock band. Their live performances were characteristic of the band, particularly in the eighties. This DVD attempts to capture early nineties performances but it is unsuccessful. Scorpions used to have a lot of interaction with the audience, had awesome encores and were energetic. Neither of these characteristics is shown in the DVD. They seemed bored. In addition, the edition breaks between song and song making the video a show of isolated boring songs. The bottom line: the concert section smells too bad.

The videos section is OK, it would have been nice if they had included more classics. That's why I give them two stars.

The live show is okay but I've seen the vhs World wide live and the performance live on stage is better, by the way kon world wide live Klaus swings the microphone on Dynamite higher than on A crazy savage world. They didn't even sing the Wind of change or still loving you on the disc, they just put some songs from crazy world live on to the dvd, the best thing on that dvd was the music videos, it's crystal clear! on the rate i would give about 3 stars.

If, like me, you are a long-time fan of German rockmeisters Scorpions, this is a nice look at the live and studio output of the band in the 1990s.

This DVD combines 12 songs from a live concert in Berlin in 1991 with a motley collection of 14 music videos.

The Scorpions run through some classics, including "The Zoo", "Dynamite" and "Blackout", in the live concert and even throw in a nice cover of The Who's "I Can't Explain". The playing is strong and the music was mixed rather nicely.

Strangely, there are fade-outs after every song in the live section of the DVD, and it isn't possible to watch the concert performance without these cuts! The person responsible for this decision should take a few classes in making a good DVD.

The video on the live section is fair, but the quality of the the music videos ranges from poor ("Rock You Like A Hurricane") to very good ("Send Me An Angel" and "Wind Of Change").

The audio is available in plain Dolby Digital 2.0 or PCM stereo and the video, given its origins, is only 4:3 without any anamorphic enhancement.

If you want a visual document of Scorpions in the 1990s, this DVD will do till somebody decides to release the excellent "World Wide Live" on DVD. Otherwise, you can safely give it a miss.

A great live band captured in an average show. still rocks, and much better than the "Moment of Glory" DVD, but the "World Wide Live" concert released on VHS is much better

First, the live part. The image quality is ok, the sound quality is not too good, but it works. The problem, however, is that the sound is badly synced with the image, so it almost looks like those German dubbed movies. The obvious reason for this is that it actually is dubbed, which is easily seen when Rudolf Schenkers guitar changes color in the middle of the songs. When it comes to the videos, the newer ones are ok, the older ones are blurry and often contains scan lines. Some are almost as low quality as the 50mb divx movies flying arond on kazaa and similar services.

Since I'm a big fan of the Scorpions, I would still have bought this DVD if I knew what I know today. But I have to say that the mastering of this dvd is so bad that it would barely keep a movie editing student from failing the course.